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Stefanie Russell Photography provides a styled and unique portrait experience, on location, in the College Station and Bryan Texas area. She is a premier senior portrait photographer. Available for children, family and engagement portraits as well. Stefanie's work has been published in magazines including Brazos Valley Bride & Family. Please fill out the contact form to schedule a portrait session.

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Monthly Archives: December 2009

My family went to my in laws in San Antonio for Christmas. I was standing on the upstairs patio looking at the empty lot behind them. It was evening and the sun was setting. I got that little “ding,ding,ding” in my crazy little head. The light is flowing through the trees so beautiful and golden and there is green all over the ground, I wonder if my sweet and cute sister in law would want to do a fun little photo shoot over there this week. She happily agreed so we went through her closet. It started off as a grunge/teenage photo session and ended up more of a “Twilight” type session. My other sister in law is also doing photography so she joined us. They were both cracking me up by talking about things “Bella” does in the Twilight series. I saw the first movie but I’m not the huge fan a lot of people are, so I couldn’t really remember how she acted and such like they did. I’m more into “True Blood”. After doing this session, I def want to see it again. My young sis in law was not a huge fan of Twilight until recently. My mother in law bought her the series of books and she can’t put them down. She informed me that the vampire bite is NOT two puncture marks but a crescent shape. I would have never known. Then they told me about the eyes of a vampire, they are dark when they are hungry and ready to feed and light when they are full. Perfect with Julie’s eye color. Ya know, ya learn something new everyday right? lol Anyway, we started off with a fairy thing and went to more of a twilight thing. It was fun to just play. Julie was such a natural. Thanks again Julie. You are the bomb! OH, and I almost forgot! As we are shooting a spiked buck walks right into the lot. We are like “OMG”, then a 4point (or so) buck walks up behind him. I can’t say I have ever been that close to one. We were laughing saying that went right along with our theme but didn’t get any pics of them in the background. They didn’t last long. The clicking of our cameras ran them off. THEN, the neighbors had their binoculars out trying to figure out what we were doing. It was pretty funny! To the like 3 people that follow my blog, I hope you like them!

This was an absolutely awesome session. My good friends were up for anything! We laughed and got silly. It was so hard to pick out my favorites! There were SO many. They told me some interesting stuff about downtown were we took these. I have done a lot of sessions downtown but knowing the history a little more is always fun to me. They were telling me about Lyle Lovett doing a video to “This old porch” down there. It was in the 90’s. After I watched the little documentary and video and saw all the places where I take pictures, I was in awe of how much it has changed. Heck, it has changed a lot just since I moved here about 14yrs ago. I love Lyle’s music!!! I can’t believe I didn’t know he had filmed a video here. He is an Aggie and use to live here (heck, he may still have a home here). Anyway, made the session really interesting hearing all of the stuff they knew about the downtown. I’m not a big history buff or anything but do love to know interesting details about places I love. They are really cleaning up this area. There are so many other places I would love to shoot at but it’s not the best part of town! 😉 So hopefully more will be done so I can have some new spots! It really has become over saturated with photographers too. Can you blame them? lol Ok, enough of me rambling on about my fun location. Here is the awesome session…

I was excited for this session. Isn’t this family gorgeous! I have known them for over 10yrs. Shannon and I were even pregnant at the same time once. We do have some great belly shots together, lol! This is just a little sneak peek. I have more coming. Hope you enjoy…